Product Backlog Contracts in the North West

Product Backlogs
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Product Backlog skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Product Backlog over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 128 148 156
Rank change year-on-year +20 +8 -23
Contract jobs citing Product Backlog 6 10 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.22% 0.31% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.35% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 13
10th Percentile £395 £376 £456
25th Percentile £406 £416 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £463 £588
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% -21.28% +23.68%
75th Percentile £469 £559 £614
90th Percentile £480 £668 £633
England median daily rate £550 £563 £575
% change year-on-year -2.22% -2.17% +21.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £46.72
England median hourly rate £65.50 - £28.00
% change year-on-year - - -51.30%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Product Backlog is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,396 2,893 3,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.28% 90.60% 88.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,533 2,057 2,616
10th Percentile £306 £313 £238
25th Percentile £401 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £590 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 144 165
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.30 £21.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.49
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +70.82% +10.76%
75th Percentile £45.22 £48.91 £43.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
% change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%

Product Backlog
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Product Backlog as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Product Backlog in the North West

Product Backlog
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Product Backlog in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Product Backlog in the North West

Product Backlog
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Product Backlog within the North West region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester +13 5 £475 +2.70% 2
Merseyside - 1 £400 - 1
Product Backlog
England

Product Backlog
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Alfresco
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Mocha
2 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Full Stack Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Development Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Development Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Digital Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Product Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Scrum Master
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Jest
1 3 (50.00%) React
1 3 (50.00%) Redux
2 1 (16.67%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
2 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
2 1 (16.67%) Node.js
2 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
1 3 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 3 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
1 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (33.33%) Full Stack Development
2 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 2 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (16.67%) Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Budget Management
3 1 (16.67%) Business Continuity
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Digital Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Information Security
3 1 (16.67%) Minimum Viable Product
3 1 (16.67%) Product Management
3 1 (16.67%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) QA
1 3 (50.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft